[hyades-dev] Hyades UI meeting notes (Nov. 3, 2004)

["Curtis D'Entremont" <curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Meeting notes from this week's Hyades
UI meeting: 

Agenda:

Continue the discussion on profiling
filters in hyades. I would like to nail down a few of the most important
improvements that we all agree need to be addressed so that we can start
working on them.

Attendees: 

Carl Wicklow
Curtis d'Entremont
Dominique Guilbaud
Eugene Chan
Geary Ridings
Glenn Weidner
Marius Slavescu
Martin Boag
Nagarajan Kalaimani
Terry Fountoulakis
Wayne Ho

Time: 

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 12:00pm (noon) EST.

Notes: 

We started drilling down and focusing
on post-filtering (view filtering). 

Things that were agreed on:

1. The current filter-by-name text box
in the statistical tables will be removed entirely.
2. All Hyades views that allow filtering
will have a filtering button in their toolbar, and probably a drop-down
filter. Clicking on the button will show a dialog where the user defines
what to filter. The contents of this dialog would depend on the type of
data being viewed.
3. Sharing post-filters is not as important
as sharing pre-filters, and will not be done in the initial improvements.
If we see later on that they would be useful, then we'll do so at that
time.
4. Hyades should provide a framework
through which all Hyades viewers plug in their specific filters (e.g.,
log viewer, ). It should be as general as possible.
5. In general, the user should be able
to right click on any filterable thing(s) in any Hyades view and select
something like "Filter this item". This would add an entry to
the currently enabled filters in the view.
6. Filters contents should be saved
globally and shared, but filter selection will be view-based.

Since there was some confusion with
terminology, I left things a little vague. Next week we'll have a clearer
idea of what is being proposed via the document we'll be reviewing.

Todos:

- Eugene, etc. to write a use case document
describing the proposed approach. We will review this document in next
week's meeting.

Thanks,
Curtis d'Entremont
Problem Determination Tools
IBM Toronto Lab

Phone: (905) 413-5754
E-Mail: curtispd@xxxxxxxxxx